Candidates Quotes - Page 34

• Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Negative

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• The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Optimistic, Bjp

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• I was the perfect candidate. America had their chance with the perfect candidate.

  Michele Bachmann

  America, Perfect, Chance

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• The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

  James Wolcott

  Party, Reality, Tea

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• Don't worry about what candidates have done or said, just vote for the Democrats. Then, afterwards, you can go eat fried chicken.

  Michelle Obama

  Worry, Done, Vote

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• Today I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Believe, Kids, America

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

  Ron Santo

  Perfect, Infection, Affected

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• Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

  Peter Schiff

  President, Worst, Critics

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• Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

  George Carlin

  Campaigns, States, Thirteen

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• As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

  John Anderson

  Country, Party, Independent

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• I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.

  John Anderson

  Suicide, Party, Thinking

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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  Daniel Seligman

  Political, Feminism, Use

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• If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Nominations, Democratic

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• [If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Running, Moving, Presidential

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• I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Men, Issues

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• People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

  Carly Fiorina

  Party, Tired, Offering

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, People, Voting

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

  Chris Christie

  The End Of The Day, Campaigns, Election

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• You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Agree

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.

  Howard Zinn

  Government, Order, White

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• I believe that it is preferable sometimes to have one candidate rather another candidate, while you understand that that is not the solution. Sometimes the lesser evil is not so lesser, so you want to ignore that, and you either do not vote or vote for third party as a protest against the party system.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Believe, Evil

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Believe, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."

  Howard Zinn

  People, Support, Voting

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• It has been reported that Rudolph Giuliani has trademarked the name 'Rudolph Giuliani' so other candidates can't use his name in negative campaign ads. ... For similar reasons, Hillary Clinton has trademarked the words 'ballbuster,' 'castrater,' and 'nutcruncher.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Names, Negative, Rudolph

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• Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Decision, Able, Politician

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